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Lebanon: Revolt in Waltz Time
Wakin, Edward | July 19, 1958 issue

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From the beginning of the Lebanese crisis, this dollar-and-cents factor permeated the situation, and it was obvious that the opposition strategy was to undermine the pro-Western regime of Camille Chamoun by undermining business. Neither public opinion polls, nor even a recent census, exist in Lebanon, but there are handy indicators of the national division. The first thing a Lebanese knows about his fellow is whether he is a Christian or a Moslem. If a Moslem works or lives in a Christian village, he feels inferior or is regarded as such, while a Christian in a Moslem village will tell you right off that he is "better than them."

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PUBLIC opinion polls; RELIGIOUS disputations; DEMOGRAPHIC surveys; CHAMOUN, Camille; LEBANON -- Politics & government; LEBANON
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